Scripps La Jolla Named Among Top 100 Hospitals in the U.S.

The Truven Health Analytics annual 100 Top Hospitals study evaluated the performance of nearly 3,000 hospitals across the country. Truven researchers measured clinical and operational performance in 11 areas, using publicly available information from Medicare cost reports, Medicare Provider Analysis and Review data, and core measures and patient satisfaction data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Hospital Compare website. Hospitals do not apply for consideration, and winners do not pay to market this honor.

Truven this year added core measures for stroke care and blood clot prevention, in place of the retired acute myocardial infarction, heart failure, pneumonia and surgical care core measures. It also added emergency department throughput measures to expand measurement of process efficiency in a department that is an important healthcare access point to every community.

In 2015, Scripps opened its Prebys Cardiovascular Institute at the Scripps La Jolla campus. The most advanced heart care center on the West Coast features world-class physicians, ground-breaking research and state-of-the-art technology. The tower houses two hybrid operating rooms, four cardiovascular operating rooms, 59 intensive care unit beds and 108 private inpatient rooms. A new emergency and trauma center will open in the institute’s ground floor later this year.

The Truven listing came on the heels of an annual state report that designated Scripps La Jolla as the only hospital in California rated above average for outcomes in coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG) with valve replacement or repair.

Other Scripps hospitals have received accolades recently as well.

Earlier in February, Healthgrades named Scripps Green Hospital, also in La Jolla, to its 2016 list of “America’s 50 Best Hospitals.” The honor is based on overall clinical excellence across a broad spectrum of care. Scripps Green is the only hospital in San Diego County to make Healthgrades’ 2016 list of “America’s 50 Best Hospitals.” Healthgrades is an online consumer resource for hospital and physician information.

Hospitals on the Healthgrades list demonstrated superior performance in clinical quality outcomes for patients in the Medicare population across at least 21 of 32 of the most common inpatient conditions and procedures. These included areas such as cardiology, gastroenterology, orthopedics, neurosciences, and a variety of pulmonary, vascular and critical care issues.

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